The Insane Imperial Ship which BROKE Entire Planets
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Today we'll take a look at the Empire's Torpedo Sphere -- a uniquely specialized ship used almost exclusively to break open Planetary Shields. We'll discuss everything you need to know about the torpedo sphere on today's Star Wars video!
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The Torpedo Sphere itches the "giant geometric death machine that looks silly but works perfectly" scratch the Borg imparted on me so I immediately loved it on sight
“Oh no! It’s the Death Macaroon!”
Man you should see Battletech warships. Eggs, eggs everywhere!
I want a Borg assimilated torpedo sphere under my direct control.
@@louisbabycos106 Lmao yes, imagine just rocking someones world with borg munitions
@@starsilverinfinity
I was thinking of the durability enhancement but also Borg munitions would be cool as well .
I kind of like the general idea. It has a dedicated role. It has reasonable limitations given its role (though I don't see why it couldn't carry some fighters). It's strong, but not OP. It's not stupidly big. A few dozen of these make a lot more sense than a Death Star, and would cost a lot less also.
Physical munitions would still be astronomically expensive compared to energy weapons. It is obvious why so few were produced.
If a planetary ion cannon can disable a Star Destroyer with a single salvo, it can probably do the same to a torpedo sphere.
@@MightyGalvatron If the rebels had weaponry that powerful, why were they running all the time?
@@Mark-in8ju Because they were little more than guerillas, not a fully-equipped planetary defense force. Like Dornea, for example. Look it up on the wiki. The Legends version.
i'm not 100% sure but wasn't the Death Stars beam near infinitely reusable since it uses kybers? also the Death Star's sheer scale made it a really good propaganda tool which debatably is better then actual offensive ability
It's a very op ship. The immense firepower is just insane.
Looks like something from Dune, it's such a weird and cool design!
Also, as an aside, it's Canon according to the Rebel Handbook and Wookieepedia, which is awesome! Also loved seeing it in the Rebel Handbook, but was disappointed when I found out the artwork might've been traced, back when all that was going on.
In theory, torpedoes could be shot down before they even have a chance to weaken a shield. That's probably why bombers have to close the distance before they can unleash their payloads against big warships.
In other words, torpedo spheres are not without drawbacks. They're certainly no substitute for a Death Star. And I can't imagine they're much better armored or shielded than anything else in the fleet.
But you need to have a dedicated weapon to shoot down the torpedoes and a barrage of torpedoes is hard to shoot down
I mean sure in theory the torps could be shot down - but a Torpedo Sphere doesnt work alone, so while its sending like 500 proton torpedoes at your shield you'll probably be having to simultaneously deal with an Imperial warfleet and its own munitions and fighters, which would suitably tie up any defenders tbh
@@starsilverinfinity Shields don't have to work alone either. They can be supplemented by warships, fighters and artillery as well.
@@Elipsyclips We have those today. Just look at the Phalanx CIWS.
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Or the Patriot missile system:
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@@MightyGalvatron Of course, but when you're fighting simultaneously against your enemies own warships, fighters, and (space) artillery aswell its probably hard to over focus on one or the other lest they overrun you - focus on the missiles and suddenly their fighters have an easier time harassing and cutting yours down, etc etc
When West End Games first came up with the Torpedo Sphere for the RPG, our GM's immediate reaction was "they made this up so players could blow up something other than the Death Star".
This is one of the things I love about Star Wars. So many weapons that are so OP and yet no one cares because it’s fun and cool.
"40K has entered the chat"
@@tootiredtostop1606 "...using a warp drive that sails ships literally through hell. Some demons came too."
In the Expanded Universe there was a weapon which could automatically cause a star to go supernova, there was even one which could theoretically blow up the entire universe if I'm not mistaken
@@MariOmor1 Not familiar with the latter one, but the former is (or at least includes) the infamous Sun Crusher, which is the epitome of OP nonsense with it being an essentially indestructable ship the size of the Falcon that can just fly THROUGH star destroyers, and has torpedoes that make stars go supernova.
That said, in canon Starkiller base did in fact do its name justice by essentially killing its own star by sucking it in as a power source, even if it didn't blow the star up.
@@MariOmor1 late but you're thinking of the shawken device
I think we only have 3 examples of these ships dying in Legends. All three of them to ramming. Twice BY SSDs like Grunger's Aggressor at Tralus and another during the Imperial Mutiny. And another by the Black Ice from the WEG sources referenced in your last book.
I thought the good idea would be to retarget the torpedoes to attack the shield generator as soon as the shield was penetrated and torpedoes slipped through. Even if a hole was in the shield, it's very unlikely it would be between the Torpedo Sphere and the shield generator. A torpedo can make a turn after slipping through the shield, though. That's why I am a bit disappointed in this design's practicality.
the thing also has Turbolaser batteries to exploit the openings
T kinda doubt there would be enough time for re-targeting. As said in the video the holes poked by the torpedo sphere lasts for mere seconds, other than shooting straight through that hole you practically don't have enough time to do much else. And holes are usually be poked at it's weaker points, which would highly unlikely be anywhere near it's generator
@@slimetank394 The torpedo sphere shoots a constant stream of torpedoes. As soon as the hole is made, more torpedoes are going to penetrate. That is MUCH faster than starting to shoot lasers right then. Lasers which given how the Torpedo Sphere works, cannot logically hit the generator.
@@arandomperson7713 All three objects would have to be in line for that to work. Given how it scans and finds the weakest point of a shield, the odds of that are like a billion to one. Besides, the torpedoes will get through the shield much faster than turbolasers.
In order for this strategy to work, the torpedoes must have some kind of guidance like the Cruise Missiles. You need them to be able to home in for shield generators on the surface of the planet and self-guide them under the planetary shield, once they poked in through the hole. Otherwise, as you said, there's little chance for it to be effective enough since there are very high probability chances these shield weak points are present somewhere in the middle of nowhere, like a desert, ocean etc.
3:54 I see a few issues with your issues:
- planetary shields are not just one emitter. They are several emitters. You can not place sufficient Ground/Space weapons at _every_ generator to challenge a torpedo sphere. There will be a weak spot.
- if you as the defender shoot to early at the opening hole, you end up hitting your own shield. Just weakening it more. If you shoot to late, your weapons have probably already been hit as well
- I doubt that you can have a area shield protect a planetary shield generator while in operation. Put a area dome over a planetary generator, you just took out that planetary generator as surely as enemy actions. Remember Corouscants double shield? They had to have holes in the lower level, just to generate the upper level.
- If you drop the area shield to re-engage the planetary generator, that is a window. Just have a lowly ISD take over supressing that planetary shield generator and go for some other plantery generator with the Sphere
And that assumes the enemy can not just overpower your much weaker area shield
- Storytelling wise, a Torpedo Sphere is a Siege Tower. Or maybe ramps. It will give the enemy much easier access to beyond your walls (the planetary shield).
It is a highly specialized siege warfare tool. Something you sally out to destroy. Something the regular army has to protect.
In the Empire at War: Remake it's the best response to any Golan station(they are really good in this mod, Golan III tears 3 Allegiances to pieces) from outside of its range. Fun ship, awfully vulnerable to any form of concentrated fire.
I sent in 4 allegiance against it and they all got destroyed
@@Alex-ov5th My Allegiances(yes, I've modded the mod) had their reloads cut in half so effectively there were 6 of them
@@Firefocus-fz2we even with modding some of the files they still get destroyed even with 6 coming at it
@@Firefocus-fz2we I sent in like 8 isd2 bit faster I had there barbet turbolaser shoot a little bit faster and it kinds worked for me until the emey brought in there own fleet of bombers then I lost
@@Alex-ov5th You need to destroy their torps using bombers and then you are usually good to go. Or just go standard Siege approach Broadsides or TSSP
Kind of a prime example of "Cool, but Impractical." With an upgrade to their sensors, I don't see why a handful of star destroyers couldn't replicate the requisite firepower needed to collapse a shield's weak point, and you could have multiple battlegroups target different points of the shield to up you chances of collapsing a single section. And it wouldn't require a purpose built vessel that gobbles up valuable resources - resources that, once spent, are completely unavailable if you're not in the specific situation where one of these things is required.
Probably because having one ship that can do all of that in your pocket is more convenient than diverting all the requisit fire power from your heaviest hitters in the fleet - proton torpedoes have insane damage values which is why you can penetrate shields using them by targetting a single point, something we arent shown turbolasers doing the same. Even if the turbolasers on the star destroyers could replicate the effect, thats several star destroyers that would be busy shooting at a shield instead of destroying enemy defenses since planetary shields are usually paired with powerful defenses rather than sitting on their own.
Its totally possible that you cant even replicate this effect with turbolasers - a turbolaser splash isnt the same as a proton warhead detonation
It’s much better to have a few specialized ships to preform specific roles, than upgrading one ship in a hole fleet to beable to handle every situation, it allows for greater flexibility at a cheaper cost. You’re never going to be able to upgrade a few star destroyers to replace the role of this ship it’d be a new class so either you’d practically upgrade all star destroyers with this ability which is overkill or build a new ship like the imperials did(you could argue for making closer to a star destroyers but I’d counter by saying typically the more niche a ship the better it serves a role)
If memory serves me right. The torpedo would explode and push the shield in just a bit....then another. And another till it was pushed way back so the turbolaser could knock out the generator
Honestly I think it needs to be said that the Empire's biggest weakness is actually their overreliance on the ISD. They wanted a ship that could do anything and weren't willing to utilize specialized craft all that much. The ISD is basically the textbook Star Wars example of the saying "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." It's extremely good at capital ship combat if you know how to properly utilize it, but it's abysmal at most other tasks and it generally feels like the Empire doesn't utilize it properly for its main purpose. The Torpedo Sphere, on the other hand, is designed for one purpose in mind and is *very* capable of that one role to the point of likely being a deadly anti-fleet weapon if the need arises. It's a single ship able to destabilize a planetary shield faster than an entire battle group of ISDs, which makes it more efficient overall and "safer" than risking the ISDs that are likely carrying your invasion force.
@@sentinel7672 Fax ngl
The torpedo sphere is art.
"Do you really need more than that?"
Palpatine: Yes.
I’ve always liked the torpedo sphere. As much as I like the triangle ships there’s just something about this thing that’s cool looking.
My assumption is that there weren’t anywhere near hundreds of them. That’d likely be way more than all SSDs of all classes in service, but there were probably more than 6 around.
Rebel 1 “Sir, an Imperial ship has entered the system.”
Rebel 2 “No matter. Our planetary shields can withstand anything.”
Rebel 1 “Sir, it’s a Torpedo sphere”
Rebel 2 “Oh sh-“ Dies from torpedo volley
Imperial Officer laughs
meanwhile the battle tech leviathan II clan ghost bear warships are like: bruh i can't feel a thing because i got alot of AMS that are purposely bulit to shoot down hundreds of small missle swarms exactly like the ones that the galactic empires torpido sphere uses. then the clan ghost bear leveltin II then process to use a powerful broadside brage of gauss and laser blasts. then it starts lauching alot of 100 ton asrospace fighters that can eat tie fighters even when out numberd 10-1. also any tie fighters that try to do a bombing run end up dying to a massive brerge of parctal blasts, lasers , gauss shels, and a whole bunch of guided swarm missiles that are in the hundrids.
Rebel 1:Sir it's a torpedoe sphere
Rebel 2: On my god ,cool name but never heard of it as a big threat , Anyway Contact the nearest salvage ship and then send in few of our Starfighter squadrons and a jedi if available and keep our fleet at standby at these locations around it , can't be as irresponsible as the imps now can we .
Rebel 1: Yes sir orders given away
Rebel 2 :You sure it's a single ship , which idiot would send a single ship
(After a hour)
Rebel 1:Sir the enemy craft is destroyed ,salvage ship is escorted to the debris now ,a single casualty hit from a stray proton torpedo .
@@sumukhvmrsat6347 that wasn't the batttech warships by that blew up. that was a mere drop ship sconut by the way that was a slngle 5000 ton drop ship being blown up to make the toprdio shere waste most of its savlo, then a massive swarm of 500+ 100 ton aerospace fighters with over 45 drop ships, 8 of them being 5000 ton drops ships with 11 of the drop ships being 50,000 tons, witch the remaing of them being 100,000 tons, with it sames to be one new warship of a custom desine escorting the clain livthavean II that seams to be 2.5 miilon tons. this new warship then prodesces to fire a huge amount of fire power, also the 50,000 ton and 100,000 ton drop ships seam to also start firering of what looks to be like a huge amount of partcail bolts in very large amountd witch some of them just oblrate most of the empire tie fighters and smaller sourport ships bascly immediately when they got into range, then the large 2.5 million ton war ship then fires in a-lot of directions with much larger particle boults that then start to hit most of the emptier other ships. when this happend a few of the star disoryres rector core in the under side get hit and expodle causing power loss in those star destroyers, while other star destroyers get hit near the command decks causing some of the ships bridges to get ripped off or have very severe damage, while other star distoyers get very heavy super stucthure damage even when the shields where still up! how this happens is besscue the battletech war ships and drop ships particle cannons acatly deal damage via kentic partcail impacts. thus due to the star distroyers ray shelding could only parcaly prodect the star dsitoys from those waepons but not fully. then the aerospace fighters get close and start fring so many missles that they just blot out the galactic empires fleets sensors complnty. then when they hit they shred most of the fleets star distoyers plasteel armor right off. while also large anouts of the star disroyers extenal weapons monuts, and serno/sheld genrators and briges just get riped to shrid! this is due yet agen ther not enegry based weapnos that ray shelding would protect agest. then the aero space fighters get very close to the crippled star destroyers and then seam to fire large amounts of actual laser beams in such numbers and intensty that it cuses all the remaning star distoyers to melt and brake apart from the shear heat and energy out put of over 1200 high insity laser beams that melted the plasteel plating of the star distoyers like it was a 1000 degree kifle going thew warm butter. not only that but most of the entier star distoyer fleet when they tred to shoot the war ships, dropships, and arospace fighters the ion cannon shotsd on the dropships and war ships had no efect while also the torbo lasers had very littel damage on them. then when the partcal bolts from the war ships and drop ships hit they not only did masvle damge to the star dsiroyers but it also fully fiyed all those galactic empire ships ecletocincs too! this is because the weapons the drop ships and wars ships where using where acatly more similar to the ion disrupters the madlionons where using but much more powerful and massively been improved thew multable gernatons of improvement. the rebels soundly heard the screams of the ten of thosaons of the empire's crews screaming and cursing as all the empire ships just get obliterated by the two battltech war ships, 45 dropships, and 400+ 100 ton aerospace fighters. you note one of the warships where not a normal starnderd desine but a costeum made one with a logo of the ashtiarmry mercenaries on it. it also saem to also have like 32 docking collors on it. it also fired so many particle bolts that did most of the damage. it was laso the one. that carried 32 out of the 45 drop ships. aslo those 32 drop ships where also carrying 20 100 ton aerospace fighters each. also when the torpedo sphere targeted the 2.5 million ton warship even its full volley just seam to been vaporized by a huge amount of lasers like so easily that none of them even got close to even get within 50 meters of the ship armor. but the battle tech war ship actcak was so fast and so powerful the galactic torpedo sphere diden't even get a chacnse at a third volly before the whole galactic empire fleet got turned into melted scrap from the shear intensity of the fire power of the two battle tech warship fleet from the shear amount of weapon ou put of all these drop ships aero space fighters and warships. it was so suden and fast that not even any of the empire ships could even use the ecape pods by the time they realsied they where masvly damaged. and yet the balltech war ship lfeet only lost one dropship while most of the otehr ships only had a small amonut of armor damage.
also to add to insult and injury thise ships didn't even have force fields and aftfacl gravity genrators on them. but the amor they had made the derrasteel and plasteel armor on those star disortyers look very prermitive. also sensor reading of the armor incated of a increadable form of foamed aulmulium ferrous alloy and diamond strength woven carbon nanotubes abrasive armor so durable and strong! its no wonder the star disroyers ion cannons and turbo laster didn't have barely a effect and in fact the 5000 ton drop ship that got blew up only just had barly borken apart in very large chncks from losing comtol after the torpido shprers full volley hit it. but it is still most in two large peaces and not only that the drop ship had allready been stripped down with only just its armor and non combat systems still left and all of its escape pods where already been fired. also theres just no cargo and anything in it bays. plus there just only a three days worth of fuel in its tanks. but sensor readings says it was acatly giong like 700+ kmh or 900+ mph at the time it was hit with those torpidos. also those drop ships are already docked into those warships and they soundly at a simear low graitvy aera in the sistem just sudden diapear in a glow by the time the rebel ships get there. then more gacltic empire fleet hyperwave trasmtion distress sigles from a empire strong hold 30 light years away signaled a distress message. then there was two week of slilase before yet more empire distress sigles stared agin. this keep repating off and on every two weeks.
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The Empire had some cool toys, too bad they didn’t use them
This doesn't make sense. The shield will be weakest furthest from the generator. If it can only open a hole for a few seconds, what good is it? Can a ship enter atmosphere in that time?
#askeck who is ultimately responsible for ordering the destruction of Alderaan? Was it Palpatine or did he just give the authorization for it?
Lore ship Versus video request:
Resurgent vs. Starhawk
Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing
World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship
Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail
Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version)
Keldabe vs. ISD II
MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer
Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class
Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser
EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator
Praetor vs. Subjugator
EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent
Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III
Palps probably just gave de facto authorization by letting Tarkin use whatever means were necessary to get Leia to talk. The destruction of Alderaan was entirely on Tarkin, he gave the order.
Darth Vader: "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
Don't try and frighten us with your sorcerer's ways lord Vader
Imagine if the First Order used a Torpedo Sphere at the start of The Last Jedi.
Keep up all of the hard work! Your videos make my day
Wouldn't a missile cruiser be just as effective? Or a series of more manouverable missile cruisers co-ordinated be.. more able especially when dealing with incoming enemy fire?
Love the vid eck! Would love to see you take an in-depth look at some of the ships in the vong fleet. I don’t know much about their specs or anything personally.
"You're here for the tasty noodles" Child of the Gentle West I am here for you to man up and do a video about how the Mon Calamari cruisers have no weapons! At both Endor and Scarif they do not fire a single shot, the Profundity embarrasses itself at Scarif, eating fire from Vader's flagship without popping off a single blaster bolt from its supposed "armaments".
THANK YOU
Mon calamari cruisers are repurposed pleasure/leisure cruisers, iirc so they don’t have weapons bc they weren’t built for that purpose
Edit: mom to mon
I think the in universe explanation might be something about range, as ISDs had higher quality gas and weapons, possibly allowing for longer ranges than the mon cals, who with their lower quality gas might not be able to reach them
At Endor you actually see them fire in a couple of scenes, best example is the scene where Ackbar says "Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer"
The Death Star was an inside job!
I keep expecting Mork from Ork to come out of the space egg.
That ship looks a bit derpy but it’s op
The pocket death star aka the torpedo sphere would have been a better investment than the death star, as well as the tie defender, and the interdictor-class star destroyer.
Those torpedo spheres would have been more lethal if they were equipped with mass drivers (also known as MACs in Halo lore) alongside the torpedoes. Those MDs would've allowed more versatility in siege busting and serve as long distance sniping ships in fleet engagements.
@@jaymikevillanueva1212 also a good idea.
Torpedo sphere my favorite spherical ship be cause torpedoes are pretty amazing and this ship is based around them
It's evening where I'm at but new videos from you are always enjoyable.
Such awesome videos on this channel! Big fan here!
I love using the Torpedo Sphere in Thrawns Revenge and watching it spew proton torpedos everywhere.
Thank you for this! I always read offhand references to the Torpedo Sphere growing up and was intrigued/curious about it, but I never knew the actual details or what source it came from.
“Standard Imperial Design”- So it had an idiotic weakness?
I remember this ship... great video!
I would like to know morea about the Geonosian Capital spaceships, I can find little bits of information on the Geonosian Corvette (Pinnace-Class) and have read that there was/is a Geonosian Dreadnaught but there is very little info on these ship, were there other large Geonosian ships?
"Not many images of the torpedo"
*Continues to give us a very nice variety of images and videos*
your content and production quality are incredible!
I've heard about these things for years but never seen them brings joy to my nerdy heart
This thing packs a punch while also looking like an egg I can scramble for breakfast
Thrawn laughing his ass off at breaking through planetary shields: Look at what they need to mimic only a fraction of my power...
Interesting tidbit… At the 7:22 mark, the literature states that each torpedo storage room was manned by 25 B-1 Worker Droids. Could these be reprogrammed, Clone Wars era Separatist battle droids? Would be a very uncharacteristically efficient use of resources by the Empire.
Says they were modified to handle torpedos, wouldn't surprise me
@josephmontanaro2350 That's basically the ideal role for B1s too. Menial work that would be dangerous to organics, and in a location where the crew may be called to fight. B1s aren't great at shooting, but they are better than an R2 unit or a forklift is. Theyd at least have a prayer of being useful if it was boarded
Would love to see a list of playable mod with all these ship types in them.
I know it's not star wars, but one concept for a ship i thought was pretty unique was from the Expeditionary Force saga. One of the top tier alien races, the Rindhalu assault a system owned by their peer species. they use a few automated ships to initiate the assault, but one of them stuck in my head.
a dedicated missile platform ship. Frigate sized, but it's only got a small space engine and a jump engine... and a whackton of missle tubes. It jumps in just ahead of the assault force, splits in half, and fires off 500 missiles all at once. 250 per side facing inwards, so when it jumps, it just opens like a book and saturates the battle space with missiles.
It made me realize we almost never see the "dumb box full of missiles" in scifi. This ship made me happy, but it's got the achilies heel of the empire. just 50% larger than it needed to be. if this ship was smaller, it could partake in fleet ops and actually have helped the empire a lot. being able to saturate a battle space with more missiles than enemy fighters would send a clear message
Day 3 of asking eck to check out the ordinance and fleet of the saboath mercenary squadrons, their bombers, frigates destroyers, starfighters and all.
If these are SO VERY ridiculously powerful wonder WHY the Empire worried an took steps against Rebel forces taking over even a small or Average Star Destroyer... Any small Rebel Force elite an Trained enough to take on the Crew and Legion of an Imperial Star Destroyer shoulda been sicked on one of THESE instead an have a HUGE game changer if they can succeed in capturing it.. as opposed as to successfully adding another battleship to your fleet even if you need one an it happens to be a Dreadnought...
UNLESS of course like about the majority of SDs the Emperor or Empire was so paranoid of such a thing ever happening these got them remote an manual self destructs built in too to keep any such scenario, in theory, from ever happening
After your FSCV I was thinking about the torpedo sphere, excellent forethinking
Very borg-ish in design, no noticeable bridge and a scattering of weapons, would really like more breakdowns of coreys in game models and stats, allways a good topic to let play in the background while gaming.
I always call those things "space JBLs"
Nice to see some Gladiator-class star destroyers escorting a torpedo sphere in a few spots. I'm guessing those were mods in Galaxy At War?
Those big-ass torpedo launchers kinda look like a shield deflectors you find on Federation starships in Star Trek.
You have a Sphere... We have a Cube. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile
Hey Eck!! Love the channel! Why don't you talk about the 3 most underrated and unnoticed starfighters of the Empire: the Assault Gunboat, The Missle boat and my favorite: the TIE Avenger. Thanks!
I can Imagine Grand Admiral Thrawn would’ve liked this ship a lot over the SSDs and Death Stars. Though crew intensive, Torpedo Spheres were quite powerful and small and always had a fleet for backup.
It seems like it would more efficent to build smaller less crew intensive torpedo spheres and have a dedicated sensor/tractor beam ship so that you can bombard a planetary shield without sacrificing in ship to ship combat
Probably only 6 of these things in existence because it feels like proton torpedos became a pretty scarce resource where just getting 500 proton torpedos could give any logistics and supply chain officer an aneurism.
you should do a video about the EU Star Tours lore, both the company and things they introduced (3rd death star, etc) and how it changed over time with new canon.
Very cool!
The blockade runner in the background at the end is an example of one of the only super weapons the rebels had.
Imagine if the first Star Wars movie ended with Luke blowing up a Torpedo Sphere and then it turned out that not only was the one he blew up just a prototype, but there were a thousand more along with a planet-destroying battle station the size of a moon.
"You've tried my flavour"
That's a weird sentence to talk about ramen
The empire should've used it for the battle of Endor .
Why would the Empire want to destroy their own shield?
@@ImTheReverse Hi, also if it could destroy a shield that would be great for destroying the rebels capital ships shields.
@@ImTheReverse a torpedo sphere would one shot mon cala cruiser's shields and immediately cripple them on the first volley of turbo lasers
@@SWY1356 hello there
The Last Command Sourcebook mentions about the Empire having an orbital siege platform above Qat Chrystac. It sent platoons of radiation troopers and fighters to the planet. Made me wonder if it was a modified Torpedo Sphere.
This one really does not fit the empire's design language for me. Everything else the empire has this size is mostly angular, but this is just. . . an oval?
On a related note, what about the grudge match between Grand Admirals Gunger and Pitta. SSD vs Torpedo Sphere.
What is it with Imperial factions and building giant balls of death?
Not sure we can thank George for that lol
Ah yes, the humble space potato. Who could forget?
I would love to see a breakdown of Plasma weapons in the starwars universe. in Children of the Jedi they were described as acting rather unique compared to blasters, even though blasters themselves fire Plasma and charged particles, the ones on the eye of Palptine were described as operating wholly differently.
Why don’t you cover the battle of Corellia where 2 grand admirals died.
I'm surprised there are any planets left considering how many planet killing ships & stations there have been.
Wouldn’t it make sense to dock several squadrons of fighters in the sphere, and launch them when hole was made in the shield? They they could fly into the atmosphere and take out the shield generator, or at least sever an easily reparable component to temporarily bring down the shield.
I love specialized craft like that, just like all the artillery units.
It's a memorable ship to encounter in Thrawn' Revenge mod, due to how different it is from other units. And your first impression usually is "holy shit why are my shields gone already?" since it just goes brrrr on them
Me:looks at title. Also me: yeah it’s called the Death Star.
If I were a warlord I would’ve use something like this as an anti-Fleet offensive or defensive weapon because of the fact that you could level enemy fleets while allowing your own ships to screen for fighters and what not
Didn't Vader spec the Executor to break through planetary shields? We certainly know the Lusankya could force through a double shield from the inside - it did exactly that in its breakout from Coruscant.
(8:25) Sheesh. That poor rebel gunship sure is having a bad day there after the Torpedo Sphere turned its attention to it, eh? 😜 (At least, I think that's a gunship?)
Do yo really need more than six torpedo spheres?
Me: Ummm yes???
Hey Eck. You should do a video on wether or not the imperial fleet at endor could invade earth during horizon forbidden west
^*Torpedo Egg*^
Dr. Robotnik approves.
Seems like it would be a pretty easy weapon to defeat. Just redirect the intensity of the planetary shield to all regions within line of sight of the torpedo sphere.
Idea that plays off many sci fi platforms. What if you put a shield around another ship. So that if they fired they would destroy the shield but they would have to suffer the damage. In essence, a ship would have two shields, one for the ship and one to surround another ship.
Hmmm. Aside from my Beloved Eclipse Super Star Destroyer have you done a video on the Hapan Battle Dragons?
this is the definition of "just put a ton of guns on the front"
The New Canon successors, of a sort, to the Torpedo sphere were actually introduced in Star Wars Armada- a table-too fleet tactics game. It's called the Onager class Star Destroyer, and while it's not nearly as Death Star Superweapon as these monstrosities, it has a similar role, combined with being one of those long-range, main-weapon focused ships I know you wish Star Wars had more of.
Why didn't they do the intelligent option?
If their own shield operated on the same frequency as the planetary shield, they would presumably cancel each other out.
3:30 question, if the opening only last a few seconds, and the weak points are usually away from the generator, how can it target the generator within those few seconds? Especially with turbolasers. Is the hole created large enough somehow for that?
You should break down the 2nd battle of fondor
I guess you have to have total space superiority tp sue it too. You'd be super careful about just one enemy Star fighter being near it before it fires too, one torpedo popping off prematurely is going to be very messy for that thing.
Torpedo Spheres exist for one reason. They exist so players of the table top RPG from West End Games can blow up a doomsday weapon, but not break canon. They're Death Star stand-ins.
Please do the Deep Docks.
Could you take a look at the blue shadow virus from the first season of the clone wars? It was scene and told to be very deadly and at the time had no known cure
Which Imperial sourcebook are you referencing?
I'm here for the AT-PTs
I want a Borg assimilated torpedo sphere under my direct control.
Does anyone else think it looks suspiciously like a Yuuzhan Vong Slave Ship?
I became a little nervous at hearing "pocket death star"
Star Wars leaders could build a lot of those...
first off I love the work you do, but can I ask about the video game video shots you show in your videos? what game / mod / expansion is it? it looks like empire at war gold expansion but I have seen so much more in your videos that I have not seen from those old games. can you tell me what they are please?
Eye of Palpatine I would like to know more about it's so hard to imagine from reading the book
Can we see the new republic military a bit more because we haven’t seen it in the last 3 movies much????
Behold! The true Death Egg!
Eggman us typing...